Teranodon
Member III
<style type="text/css">p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica}</style>For the past couple of years, I’ve been transforming my E34 from a racer to a cruiser for two. Given that, most of the time, it’s just me and my wife on board, I’ve been bothered by the size of the cabin table. It takes up too much space for the use that it gets. When I installed a Dickinson heater on the forward bulkhead, something needed to be done. I didn’t want to cut down the table, for various reasons. Hinging the forward part was a possibility, but I wanted to reduce the width as well. So I made a new table out of 18mm Russian birch plywood, taking 12 inches off the length and 3 off the width, finishing with half a dozen coats of polyurethane. I didn’t try to match the stain; the cabin already makes me feel like a squirrel living inside a tree. The table is attached with 8 screws, so it would be easy to switch back. I’m pleased with the result. It really opens up the cabin in a noticeable way.